Forum: “Lyme Disease: Insights into the Crisis, Key Players and the Future”

Hear from those who have intimate knowledge of the Lyme crises

Also: Exclusive Pre Release of Book for Sale & Signing

7PM, Thursday, May 29, 2008 (easy access from NY, CT, PA, NJ)

Bergen County Community College

400 Paramus Road

Paramus, New Jersey 07652

Tec Education Building, Room 128

Sponsored by Lyme Disease Association

Attorney Elliott Pollack is current Counsel for Dr. Charles Ray Jones and former Counsel for Dr. Bernard Raxlen in defending Connecticut Department of Health actions against the Doctors related to Lyme disease treatment. Attorney Pollack will discuss the legal & political issues surrounding Lyme disease and how they impact treating doctors and patients. He is a member of Pullman & Comley, LLC.

Author Pamela Weintraub, an editor at Discover Magazine, is featured in her first public discussion about her book, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, to be released June 19 by St. Martin's Press. The book, a narrative history of the Lyme experience and a deconstruction of the science and politics, discloses the research of some major players in the Lyme war and includes surprising, and to some perhaps shocking, revelations from researchers who have been behind the effort to debunk chronic Lyme disease. Patients, advocates, treating physicians, and other scientists are also interviewed and the reader will gain insight into living with Lyme as portrayed through the examples of several "Lyme families". At the forum, she will discuss the book, difficulties pulling the information together in a meaningful fashion, her thoughts as to how her work can impact the current Lyme disease crises, and the future direction she sees for Lyme disease. Cure Unknown will be available at the event for signing and purchase with profits going to LDA toward research.

Also featured will be Dr. Joseph Burrascano, Jr., one of the most notable physicians to treat Lyme disease patients. His treatment philosophies have inspired physicians worldwide to search for new methodologies to treat chronic patients. Now retired from private practice, Dr. Burrascano will share his insights from over 20 years of treating chronic Lyme disease patients, his on-going database project which is amassing clinical data never before compiled, and what he sees as the future of Lyme treatment based on current research and his data base. Dr. Burrascano will touch upon what he sees as his immediate role in Lyme disease.

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